Humanizer is back with a 2.0 release this week, hot on the heels of 1.0. This release features DB/ORB independence, I18N and L10N of the question and answer set asked of potential humans, and a promise to be awesome.

Sean Walberg provided this article on using JMeter to load test Rails applications. He ran into a sticky problem load testing form submits because of Rails' authenticity token. Sean walks us through getting around that problem with resorting to things like disabling Rails' built-in CSRF protection.

ERB isn't just for your HTML. You can use it to generate config files for unix 'little languages' like apache, monit, and munin, as well as .yml files for config details at deploy time. In this article Eric Lubow shows you how.